Re: NetBSD 9 PC card network drivers for IBM Workpad Z50

[D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost>]

Paul

If you talk me through how to do a “dmesg” will do my best. I am a relative beginner to Unix so you will have to bear with me.

Micheal - it was NetBSD I installed not FreeBSD.

Regards
David

> On 4 May 2021, at 16:37, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I have no idea what you expect me to do with a windows .exe file.
> 
> If you want help, you've got to help the helpers.  If you don't have
> time or energy to help us, don't ask us to help you.
> 
> 
>> On Tue, 4 May 2021, D Walton wrote:
>> Paul,
>> I found this in my archive if it helps.
>> Regards
>>>> On 4 May 2021, at 16:11, D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>> Apologies I have the 3.1 hardware version.
>>> Details attached.
>>> http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Linksys_WPC11_v3.1
>>> Regards
>>> David
>>>>> On 4 May 2021, at 16:06, D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Paul
>>>> Thanks for your helpful message.
>>>> The version that worked was NetBSD 7.0.2, but gave up as I didn’t know the command to run the OS after it was successfully installed!
>>>> Version 9 install did not recognise the card at all.
>>>> Sorry but don’t have the time to do much more. The following is the exact details of the driver. Happy to test if someone is willing to include it in version 9.
>>>> http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Linksys_WPC11_v3
>>>> Regards
>>>> David
>>>>>> On 4 May 2021, at 15:39, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>>> Please post the dmesg output from a _working_ NetBSD-7 boot.  We
>>>>> still need to figure out which driver is afffected.
>>>>> Also, have you tried NetBSD-8 to see if that works?  It would be
>>>>> useful to narrow down the range of time in which the "difference"
>>>>> was introduced.
>>>>>> On Tue, 4 May 2021, D Walton wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> I managed to download NetBSD 7 using the PC Card, but when I tried to download NetBSD 9.1 it did not recognise the PC Card was stuck as does not have an Ethernet port. The IBM Workpad Z50 needs WPC11 v3 as v4 or later comes with the gold connector and is 32 bit this one is 16 bit I think.
>>>>>> Isn’t there any way of copying across the driver from version 7 to version 9?
>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>>> On 4 May 2021, at 12:48, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:36:19PM +0100, D Walton wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>>> ?The makeand model is as stated Linksys Network PC Card WPC11 ver 3 (version 4 or later did not work for NetBSD 7). I don?t have the drivers for it but here are more details:
>>>>>>> That does not help. I mean: (a) why do you think it worked for NetBSD 7?
>>>>>>> Do you know first hand? If so, what driver did it use there?
>>>>>>> (b) why do you think it is not supported in newer NetBSD? You could
>>>>>>> show output from dmesg after inserting that card for example.
>>>>>>> My bet would be some kind of Atheros chipset, so either ath(4) or athn(4)
>>>>>>> could work.
>>>>>>> Martin
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